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Sega Shares Slide After Chairman Isao Okawa Passes Away

Sega Shares Slide After Chairman Isao Okawa Passes Away

20 Mar, 2001
With the recent passing away of Sega's President Isao Okawa, Sega Corporation (the world's third-largest video-game maker) shares have fallen 5.3 percent.
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Marconi Online and USA Technologies Form Strategic Alliance to Launch New Era of Intelligent Vending

Marconi Online and USA Technologies Form Strategic Alliance to Launch New Era of Intelligent Vending

20 Mar, 2001
Targeting the entire vending industry, the new alliance will allow vending machines to be seen as machines that do more than just dispense beverages, snacks and packaged goods.
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TAB Austria Opens MP3 Music Online Shop for Silverball MAX Terminals.

TAB Austria Opens MP3 Music Online Shop for Silverball MAX Terminals.

20 Mar, 2001
Every Silverball MAX customer can order the latest music in MP3 format easily via Internet with composed packages each month.
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Capcom to Exit Arcades?

Capcom to Exit Arcades?

21 Mar, 2001
Heated news is filtering out of Japan that Capcom is about to exit out of the arcade industry and shift its focus soley on the consumer market.
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ChampionsNet Celebrates 1st Birthday

ChampionsNet Celebrates 1st Birthday

21 Mar, 2001
With over 4000 Silverball terminals linked to the ChampionsNet, TAB is offering a VW Golf 4 – Silverball edition in a raffle for any player who registers.
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SecurDor Sales Top 15,000

SecurDor Sales Top 15,000

22 Mar, 2001
Brent Electronic's SecurDor has just reached its 15,000th order at the recent Blackpool Show. SecurDor has been designed to keep machine fraud to a minimum.
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UK Gaming Machines & New Ways to Play & Pay

UK Gaming Machines & New Ways to Play & Pay

23 Mar, 2001
Gaming machines would be able to pay out, and be played, in bank notes or smart cards as well as coins, under proposals announced recently by the Home Office.
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Japan's Sega Appoints COO Sato As New President

Japan's Sega Appoints COO Sato As New President

24 Mar, 2001
Sega Corp said on Wednesday it had appointed Chief Operating Officer Hideki Sato as its new president, entrusting him with guiding the firm through a tough bout of restructuring.
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Problems with New System to Stop Under Age Cigarette Sales

Problems with New System to Stop Under Age Cigarette Sales

24 Mar, 2001
Since 1st Jan, 2001, all Cigarette sales through vending machines in Tasmania Australia, need a gold token to enable the machine to accept money with tokens being issued by the premises once they check that the buyer is over 18 years of age.
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California Vending Machine Franchisor Settles FTC Charges

California Vending Machine Franchisor Settles FTC Charges

26 Mar, 2001
Great Pacific Vending Corporation, based in Los Angeles, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed to provide prospective purchasers document earnings reports for advertisements made in local papers.
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